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Sick of Twilight Yet?
Jun. 29th, 2009 02:56 pmAt the end of all her books, Stephenie gives thanks to Muse for inspiring her. Now, I've never listened to Muse, so I wasn't sure what to expect. The first thing I pulled up from YouTube was a video of the song "Bliss," and upon listening to it and reading the lyrics, it's far too easy to see where her inspiration and driving force for the books came from:
Everything about you is how I'd wanna be
Your freedom comes naturally,
Everything about you resonates happiness
Now I won't settle for less
Give me all the peace and joy in your mind
Everything about you pains my envying
Your soul can't hate anything
Everything about you is so easy to love
They're watching you from above
Give me all the peace and joy in your mind
I want the peace and joy in your mind
Give me the peace and joy in your mind
Everything about you resonates happiness
Now i won't settle for less
Give me all the peace and joy in your mind
I want the peace and joy in your mind
Give me the peace and joy in your mind
I mention this because when I write, I usually have a soundtrack already in mind for the driving energy behind a given story. There are certain songs that when I hear them I can't help but think of my own creative works. I find it interesting that despite Stephenie's love of Muse and desire to have them do the soundtrack or at least the Lullaby, that the only song by Muse on the soundtrack is the one played again and again on the radio and seems the least appropriate given my limited exposure to the band. As a writer I want to know what her soundtrack was and what she had in mind, because what directors and screenwriters and fans put onto a story isn't necessarily what the author intended. It seems like being able to access the music she used while writing would make the reading more interesting.
I know there are other writers who do something similar. How fascinating and rich an experience it would be if we could know what songs were playing in the background while an author wrote a beloved story, so that we might play those songs and see how the flavor of the book is harmonized by the flavor of the music. While I have no idea what Anne Rice used in writing her vamp novels, I always enjoyed reading them while listening to Tori Amos. They seemed to mesh well for me. *shrugs* But then again, I like to not think of what became of Rice. Her writing started to deteroriate and she began thinking of herself as above editing. No writer can do without a decent editor to help polish up work, and anyone who says otherwise is fooling themselves. But I digress ... music as the muse, bringing spice to one's writing. For those of you who write, what are some of your pairings?
Everything about you is how I'd wanna be
Your freedom comes naturally,
Everything about you resonates happiness
Now I won't settle for less
Give me all the peace and joy in your mind
Everything about you pains my envying
Your soul can't hate anything
Everything about you is so easy to love
They're watching you from above
Give me all the peace and joy in your mind
I want the peace and joy in your mind
Give me the peace and joy in your mind
Everything about you resonates happiness
Now i won't settle for less
Give me all the peace and joy in your mind
I want the peace and joy in your mind
Give me the peace and joy in your mind
I mention this because when I write, I usually have a soundtrack already in mind for the driving energy behind a given story. There are certain songs that when I hear them I can't help but think of my own creative works. I find it interesting that despite Stephenie's love of Muse and desire to have them do the soundtrack or at least the Lullaby, that the only song by Muse on the soundtrack is the one played again and again on the radio and seems the least appropriate given my limited exposure to the band. As a writer I want to know what her soundtrack was and what she had in mind, because what directors and screenwriters and fans put onto a story isn't necessarily what the author intended. It seems like being able to access the music she used while writing would make the reading more interesting.
I know there are other writers who do something similar. How fascinating and rich an experience it would be if we could know what songs were playing in the background while an author wrote a beloved story, so that we might play those songs and see how the flavor of the book is harmonized by the flavor of the music. While I have no idea what Anne Rice used in writing her vamp novels, I always enjoyed reading them while listening to Tori Amos. They seemed to mesh well for me. *shrugs* But then again, I like to not think of what became of Rice. Her writing started to deteroriate and she began thinking of herself as above editing. No writer can do without a decent editor to help polish up work, and anyone who says otherwise is fooling themselves. But I digress ... music as the muse, bringing spice to one's writing. For those of you who write, what are some of your pairings?
